Attributed to Franz Kline , no coa, private collection, medium: oil measurements: 24"WX30"H framed, no glass in frame, mint condition Biography: Franz Kline was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The personal style he developed during this time, using simplified forms, became increasingly abstract. Many of the figures he depicted are based on the locomotives, stark landscapes, and large mechanical shapes of his native, coal-mining community in Pennsylvania. This is sometimes only apparent to viewers because the pieces are named after those places and objects, not because they actually look like the subject.Kline's first one-man show took place on October 16 – November 4, 1950, at the Egan Gallery, 63 East 57th Street. The show consisted of eleven abstract paintings. In the early 1950s, his work looked very much inspired by french painter Pierre Soulages who exhibited in Betty Parsons gallery in New York in 1949. Color was a rare element in the paintings: brown underpainting near the bottom of Nijinsky and fleeting hints of green in Leda. The paintings displayed a variety of compositions and moods, but they all had one defining trait: Kline's signature style of black on white. Thirteen years earlier in London, Kline had called himself a "black and white man" but not until this show had the accuracy of this phase become clear to others. Because of Kline's impact and his concrete style, Kline was dubbed the "black and white artist", a label which stuck with the artist, and which he would occasionally feel restricted by. Kline's first one-man show was a pivotal event in Kline's career as it marked the virtually simultaneous beginning and end of Kline's major invention as an abstract artist.